Prosecutors say three people in Amimour’s family entourage have been in custody since early Monday. Two were arrested in Belgium and charged with terror-related offenses, officials there say, while one man remains on the loose.
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After reopening Monday, the Eiffel tower closed again Tuesday over concerns there weren’t enough security measures in place.
“We don’t know if there are accomplices in Belgium and in France… we still don’t know the number of people involved in the attacks”, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on France Inter radio.
He assured the audience that France’s security would be a priority though, according to The Huffington Post.
A French judicial official told the Associated Press that police have also identified Hadfi and Abdeslam as suicide bombers in the Friday attacks.
The news comes amid fears that ISIS and other jihadi groups have been using the refugee crisis to their advantage, a fear that was underscored when authorities found a Syrian passport showing a Greek stamp on one of the Paris attackers.
Officials had no knowledge of the Paris plot when they sought to have Abaaoud killed by airstrike, and whether the killing of Abaaoud would have prevented the attacks in the French capital.
Speaking to members of French parliament at the Palace of Versailles on Monday evening, Hollande said he would meet US President Barack Obama and Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “unite our forces to achieve a result that has taken too long”.
Hollande said the amendments are necessary so the state doesn’t have to “resort to the state of emergency” to deal with terror threats.
In an interview with IS’s online magazine, Dabiq, in February, Abaaoud said he had recently arrived in the group’s self-declared caliphate after fleeing Europe following the raids in Verviers.
Interior Minister Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 168 homes were raided in major cities and 104 people had been put under house arrest.
Kerry told embassy staffers that the bonds between the United States and France are stronger than ever and that Friday’s attacks were an assault on civilization and common decency.
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On Sunday the French military dropped 20 bombs in Raqqa, Syria in the first wave of airstrikes.
